909 - From the Archives: Reflecting on Juneteenth with Janice Bowie
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
About this episode:
Juneteenth was declared a federal holiday in 2021 but many people don’t know the history or how to recognize the day. In this episode: a look back at a 2022 conversation with Janice Bowie about how to celebrate, reflect, and recommit to social justice this Juneteenth.
Guest:
Janice Bowie is a Bloomberg Centennial Professor in Health, Behavior, and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research focuses on health equity and disparities.
Host:
Dr. Josh Sharfstein is vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a faculty member in health policy, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland’s Health Department.
Show links and related content:
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Juneteeth: Sun, Sounds and the Spirit of Freedom—Smithsonian Instutition
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9 Places to Celebrate Juneteenth This Year—The New York Times
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jh.h.u. |
| 0:22.6 | That's public health question at jh.u.org for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:31.6 | Hey listeners, it's Lindsay Smith Rogers. This year for Juneteenth, we are resurfacing a conversation with Dr. Janice Bowie from 2022, just a year after Juneteenth was first established as a federal holiday. |
| 0:44.7 | At that time, one of the questions posed in the podcast was how the holiday could be better defined in terms of observance and action. |
| 0:52.9 | In 2025, that question feels more relevant than ever. |
| 0:57.2 | Let's listen. |
| 0:58.3 | Professor Janice Bowie, thank you so much for joining me to talk about Juneteenth. |
| 1:02.8 | How are you doing today? |
| 1:04.2 | I'm great, Josh. |
| 1:05.6 | How are you? |
| 1:06.6 | I'm good. |
| 1:07.2 | I'm good. |
| 1:07.7 | I'm really looking forward to this conversation. |
| 1:10.0 | I think it might help if you |
| 1:11.3 | maybe introduce yourself to our public health on call audience. Sure. Thank you again for inviting me |
| 1:16.9 | to be a part of today's podcast. So I'm Janice Bowie and I am a Bloomberg American Health |
| 1:23.9 | Professor in the Bloomberg School of Johns Hopkins. And I also have been sharing |
| 1:30.2 | for the last several years, the schoolwide DRPH program. Now, you have done a tremendous |
| 1:37.5 | amount of work in your career. Maybe describe a little bit of your research. Sure. So my research has kind of covered three areas, |
| 1:46.8 | the first really being in the space of health disparities and health equity. I also have done |
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